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metallica-astronomy.exe

Filegetter

Maxiget Limited

This is a bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application metallica-astronomy.exe, “Helps file downloading” by Maxiget Limited has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the New IT Desktop Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from ds212.simple-get.net.
Publisher:
Company limited  (signed by Maxiget Limited)

Product:
Filegetter

Description:
Helps file downloading

Version:
3, 4, 10, 0

MD5:
0b8d4682ca8604faafcc8ac0798c4f5d

SHA-1:
c736dbc2a639867dff67ac061451ee1a8d675354

SHA-256:
145b9621d975b5c80820295f2b8955b1f77a7b2c04b329860629286000a9ed31

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This is a modified installer version of the software and bundles additional offers including adware.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 12:53:42 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.New IT Limited.Maxiget.Bundler (M)
16.3.26.12

File size:
778.8 KB (797,464 bytes)

Product version:
3, 4, 10, 0

Copyright:
2014

Trademarks:
Company(C)

Original file name:
FilegetterInstrumnet

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
New IT Desktop Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\metallica-astronomy.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Maxiget Limited

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
6/3/2014 2:11:06 PM

Valid to:
8/15/2016 12:11:32 PM

Subject:
CN=Maxiget Limited, O=Maxiget Limited, L=Limassol, S=Cyprus, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
043F9C868704FA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/26/2014 2:35:59 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:jO6BE7l2sfV6m1p7gPC9vE9WVaLGOTG326nD57Rf:i6BE7l2cPfE2i0Kz8D5lf

Entry address:
0x1BB000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 80, 09, 00, 2D, AF, 0D, 0C, 10, 05, A4, 0D, 0C, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, FF, 1F, A8, 50, 68, F9, 8E, 86, 59, 53, 50, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, 83, C0, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, 5B, 58, C3, 55, 89, E5, 50, 53, 51, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 02, 8B, 45, 10, 8B, 5D, 14, 85, C9, 74, 0A, 31, 06, 01, 1E, 83, C6, 04, 49, EB, F2, 5E, 59, 5B, 58, C9, C2, 10, 00, C8, 22, D6, 6B, 67, 1A, 45, 12, 3A, 87, AC, 17, 5A, 6B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8944  (probably packed)

Code size:
257.5 KB (263,680 bytes)

The file metallica-astronomy.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://ds212.simple-get.net/smart-download/.../Metallica-Astronomy.exe

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